{"id":832061,"date":"2026-07-28T19:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832061\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:47:09","slug":"winnipeg-supervised-consumption-site-to-fully-open-aug-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832061\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg supervised consumption site to fully open Aug. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Manitoba government says the province\u2019s first supervised drug consumption site is set to fully open on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n<p>It says its partners at Aboriginal Health and Wellness are training staff as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/winnipeg.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/29\/graduated-opening-winnipeg-supervised-consumption-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">gradual opening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government says the site will be open between Tuesday and Saturday from late morning to early evening to reduce potential harms and connect people to support services.<\/p>\n<p>The site in central Winnipeg <a href=\"https:\/\/winnipeg.citynews.ca\/2026\/04\/22\/advocate-against-supervised-consumption-winnipeg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">has been criticized<\/a> by some business owners and residents concerned about security and access by minors.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition Progressive Conservatives have also been against the site, saying the government should focus on treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The government has said a supervised consumption site is needed to address the growing number of overdose deaths in Winnipeg and reduce the number of people openly using drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manitoba government says the province\u2019s first supervised drug consumption site is set to fully open on Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-832061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}